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motherhood where sleep is a rumor and laundry

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is eternal and somehow we're supposed to be raising

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tiny humans through it all we're here to laugh

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at the chaos cry when necessary and remind you

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that none of us actually know what we're doing

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this is no manual a mom cast your mom friend

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group chat but with microphones Welcome back

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to No Manual MomCast. Hey everyone, welcome back

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to No Manual MomCast. We are excited you're tuning

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in today and just excited to chat about the holidays.

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Yeah, this is our first time recording in the

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new year. So if any episodes you've listened

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to this year, we recorded before Christmas. And

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as we were like texting back and forth over like

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kind of our Christmas break, we were like, I

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feel like We should just share our insanity because

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your Christmas was much crazier than ours was.

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I can't wait to tell everybody. Yeah, I think

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anyone with little kids will have just like relatable

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stories. I think the theme is like overstimulation

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for everybody. For sure. Yeah. But before we

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hop in, should we talk about our mom moments?

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Yeah, I can go first. Okay. So. This week, we're

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back into our normal swing of things, back to

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work, back to all of our normal routines. And

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so, of course, Thursday is my day, my long day.

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Stuart's gone in the evening. And I always have

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either pickup dinner from Chick -fil -A, McDonald's,

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whatever, or get something from Costco that I

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can just throw in the oven with zero prep, very

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little cleanup. And so Costco had a lobster mac

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and cheese this week. So I was like, ooh, let's

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give that a try. Review, not worth it. It was

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fine. that it was just fine i mean to be fair

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the last time i had lobster mac and cheese was

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in boston so it's a little bit it's a little

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different yeah the comparison wasn't great but

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yeah so review on that it was fine nothing to

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write home about anyways we're like sitting there

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i'm there with the two kids by myself and i realize

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i don't know if lloyd's ever had shellfish i

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mean both kids have had shrimp but i is that

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not considered shellfish i don't know if it's

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considered shellfish or not yeah but i'm just

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sitting there thinking neither of the kids have

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ever had lobster before yeah and what if this

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is the moment when i find out that one of them

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has like a deathly allergy yeah like what do

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i do right and i just like start spiraling in

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my head sitting at dinner for probably like five

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to ten minutes like okay like watching watching

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them both like are you breathing yeah like what's

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gonna happen and then thinking through like okay

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obviously like if something happens if you call

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9 -1 -1 yeah would they they would have to let

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me take my other small child if there's no other

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adults around they have to let me take my other

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small child but like i can't stay home right

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yeah we do know our neighbors but none of them

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on like a level of i mean I'm sure any of them,

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if I was like, hey, emergency, they would be

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fine. Yeah. But like, we don't know any of our

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neighbors really well. Parents live close, but

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not close enough. Not in like a closing of the

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throat situation. Right. It would be like, my

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parents could be here in 10 minutes. And then

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even, I like really spiraled. Yeah. I can see

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that there's a lot of thought going in your mind.

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I shouldn't have been alone for this. So my dad.

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He volunteers with the police in our town sometimes.

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And so I was like, literally to the point where

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I was like, he does ride -alongs. If I'm lucky,

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if I called 911, Papa would be on a ride -along.

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He would hear our address. He would go. I don't

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know how he'd control this. Obviously, he doesn't

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have control over this. And then I could take

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both kids. And then he can take, yeah, he can

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stay with whichever kid is healthy. Spoiler,

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neither of our kids have a shellfish allergy,

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or at least. Not that you saw. They both ate

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the mac and cheese. Everyone was healthy. Everyone's

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alive. No 911 had to be called. But yeah, I was

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just like sitting there. Absolutely. Like all

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these intrusive thoughts thinking of like the

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worst case scenario. We have no reason to think

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either if the kids have any food allergies thus

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far. But of course, that's where your mind went.

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When you said like, oh, I got lobster mac and

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cheese. In my head, I was like. allergy yeah

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i was like that's a high allergy yeah i'm like

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totally i don't know and i think like i've been

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sick this week and so there's just like all of

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the things were heightened and uh but yeah so

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i just spent like five ten minutes and then finally

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like again everyone ate dinner everyone was fine

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everyone went to bed no one died yeah no one

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went to the emergency room uh but just those

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really fun intrusive thoughts that no one prepares

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you for for sure Oh, my gosh. And the spiral

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is just so real. Because then when you're with

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someone, like if Stuart was there, he'd be like,

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yeah. All right. Let's just watch them. They're

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fine. Yeah. We'll figure it out if it happens.

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Cruz just tried eggs for the first time because

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actually that goes into my mom moment. Cruz still

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hates all food. Except for steak. Except for

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steak, which like we don't have steak very often

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because steak is really expensive. You can't

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afford steak every night? No. Gosh, I wish. Like

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it's delicious. Great. But like the very rare

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food that Cruz likes is steak. He like – last

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night he like kind of tried cottage cheese, like

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a few little bites of cottage cheese. But he

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– we did eggs yesterday and I like had to – Literally,

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I had to force it into his mouth. And I was like,

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you're going to try this because I need to know

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if you're allergic. But that's the only allergen

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we've tried with him so far. And he's nine months

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old. And at this point with Colt, Colt had tried

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so much. He was enjoying food, which I'm surprised.

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This is such a stereotype. But Cruz is a big

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boy. And so in my head, I just assumed, oh, he's

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going to love food. Of course, that's my stereotype

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in my head, big boy. gonna love food but nope

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he hates it he just likes mama's milk which i'm

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like all right that's fine but also you do need

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to eat food eventually you need yes like we are

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coming up on a year pretty soon where i'm like

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oh food is actually like a crucial part of your

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nutrition yeah and so i'm like i just i don't

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know if any mom's listening if you've gone through

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this like if you have any advice i don't know

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what to do because i'm like he He literally,

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like, I'm not even kidding. I don't know if this

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is him trying to fake me out. He'll, like, take

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the food and he'll, like, pretend to take a bite.

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And then he, like, puts it down. And I'm like,

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does he think he put it in his mouth? Yeah, I

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don't know. And he didn't? But he's just, like,

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pretending. I mean, there's definitely times

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when Zeta, like, just straight up misses her

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mouth. Yeah. But he, like, will, like, put it,

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like, really close to his mouth and then just,

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like. Change his mind. Yeah. And then he's like

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kind of pretending to chew. And I'm like, do

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you think that you're eating right now? Maybe.

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I don't know. Maybe he has a depth perception

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issue. Maybe he needs glasses. I have no idea,

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but I don't know what to do because I'm like,

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we've done all the like, I'll let him hold the

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spoon. I hold the spoon. I put it just on his

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high chair. Let him just play in it and hope

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that he like tries stuff. Most of it just. He

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just grabs it and he just throws it on the ground.

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That's crazy. And, like, he just has zero interest.

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I mean, Zeta's throwing her food on the ground,

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but different. Yeah. And, like, this is just

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totally opposite of what it was with Colt. Like,

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Colt was just. Would try everything. Would try

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everything. He didn't like everything, but he

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would absolutely try it. And it's. I just, yeah,

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I'm like at a loss of what to do. So I'm like,

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we have his nine month appointment at the pediatrician

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in like a week and a half. And I'm like, this

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is going to be the topic of conversation. How

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do we feed my child? Yeah. Yeah. And I'm like,

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I'm just, he hates, hates pouches. Like, I'm

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like, is he a texture guy? He's like pretty much

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all fruit. He like tried a strawberry. Those

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are kind of the guarantees for little kids. You're

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like, a pouch or berries. Yes. They always eat

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those. Yeah, but he will put it in his mouth

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and he just like, and then tries to spit it out.

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So I'm confused. Yeah. I have no advice for you.

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I'm so sorry. Thank you. So helpful. I have no

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advice for myself either. I have no idea what

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to do. So any advice is welcome from anyone.

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Yeah. Um, okay. Well, let's just hop into how

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was, how are your holidays? We actually had a

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really good Christmas. It was, it was really

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crazy. And there was like, by the time we got

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to the end of like Christmas week, we were really

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glad it was over. Like not that Christmas was

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over, but that all of this stuff was over. Yeah.

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If that makes sense. Like, so for the week of

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Christmas itself from Saturday. before christmas

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so that's like the 21st okay yep from that saturday

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to the following saturday the 27th we had something

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every single day oh gosh some of it wasn't super

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out of the ordinary like sunday we just had church

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which is pretty normal part of the routine right

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but then like saturday before christmas we also

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had church which is less of a normal routine

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for us so we had church church monday before

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we went to the zoo with family nice the next

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day Lloyd had a doctor's appointment in the morning.

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And then we also like started our family Christmas

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stuff. So it's like pajamas and watching a movie

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together. Just fun traditions. Yeah, all that.

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And then Christmas Eve is when we do like our

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family Christmas where we, you know, open presents

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and stockings. have a super healthy breakfast

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of cinnamon rolls and all of that. And then that

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evening, my sister and her husband came over

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and we watched a movie and ate sushi and did

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a bunch of fun stuff. And then Christmas Day

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is when we do stuff with our entire family. So

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we go see my parents. We have breakfast with

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them. We do presents with them. Then we do stuff

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with Stuart's family. And thankfully, our families

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are friends, so we all get together for dinner

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in the evening. Nice. But that's, like, a really

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long day. That's a long day of socialization.

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And then my sister and her husband don't live

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in town, so we're trying to, like, make the most

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of time with them. So then we see them on the

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day after Christmas and the day after that. And

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we just had something, like, every second of

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it. It felt like every second of every day. So

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it was a lot. And especially like Lloyd's a little

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introvert and poor little buddy was like clearly

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super over it by the end. Like I just want people

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to not be in my house. Yeah. But it was like

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it's such a weird thing since like it was so

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fun. So glad that like we got to see everyone

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and have fun. But then also like really glad

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that it was over. things can start to get to

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normal. And especially with little kids. Like,

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Christmas Day, neither of the kids napped. Not

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because we didn't, like, plan around it. We did.

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They just didn't. Just probably so, like, worked

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up. Yeah. So they didn't nap at all. So by the

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time everyone... Even Zeta did not nap. Nope.

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Oh, wow. Yeah. They were both wide awake for

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all of nap time. We, like, left them in the room

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to see if, like, calm time, like, maybe they

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would finally fall asleep. Nope. just didn't

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nap at all so then we hosted dinner for our family

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and by the time everyone came over like they

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were both just exhausted and yeah and just over

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it and i'm sure you guys were exhausted but yeah

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because then you also have your overtired kids

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yeah that like our kids get They get fussy, but

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they also get super clingy. So then they don't

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want to be around anyone else in the family.

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They just want mom and dad the whole time. And

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we're like, okay, like, I'm glad that you want

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us, but also this isn't really working right

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now. Yeah, no, I completely understand that.

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It's so like, how did they do with opening presents

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and stuff like that? Was that overwhelming or?

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I don't think it was too bad. I mean, Lloyd,

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since he like actually understands what's happening

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this year. he didn't love when other people were

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opening presents. Okay. Right. Where it's like,

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if you're opening a present, he also wants to

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be opening a present. Which like, that's to be

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expected. Totally understandable. Do you guys

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do Santa or no Santa? We didn't do Santa. Okay.

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So, but what we did do is, this was partially

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just practical because anything that was under

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the tree prior to Christmas, like we tried to

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put a couple presents under and they just were

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like. Wanted to play with it, which is fair.

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Yeah. So we did wait until they went to bed the

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night before to like put everything out. So it

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was like came downstairs. It was a fun thing

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to come down to. Yeah. But the hard thing about

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that, not about the not Santa thing, but about

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just Lloyd being two and wanting to like having

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this little attention span, but also like he

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wants to open presents and he doesn't want to

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wait for other people. is when we were opening

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presents with family, both Stuart and I had to

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keep being like, guys, come on, come on. I don't

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want to be rushing through presents, but also

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we kind of have to. We're on a time crunch here.

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Yeah, especially the past few years when Lloyd

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was littler and it didn't matter. there were

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no little kids involved. You could do the thing

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where it's like, everyone takes like five minutes

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to open a present. Oh my gosh, thank you so much

00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:02.820
for this sweater. Let me try this on right now.

00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:05.980
Let me open this right now and make sure it works.

00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:10.139
Exactly. Which is fine when everyone's older,

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but it doesn't work when you have a two -year

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-old and a 10 -month -old. Like that's just,

00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:18.860
so yeah, Stuart and I kept getting a little stressed

00:14:18.860 --> 00:14:22.159
out and frustrated with both families. Yeah.

00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:24.259
With that, just because we're like, no, guys,

00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:26.440
like, don't do the polite thing of, oh, is it

00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:29.559
my turn? No. Just open a present. It's everybody's

00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:32.200
turn. We don't care. Lloyd's distracted right

00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:34.600
now, so open a present. I don't care. Yeah. Everybody

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open. Yeah, that's like, Colt was like, just

00:14:37.860 --> 00:14:39.879
present after present. If there was a present

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there, he was going to open it. No matter, like,

00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:45.299
if you wanted to play with it right now. Right.

00:14:45.340 --> 00:14:48.090
It was like. oh, no, we're going to keep opening

00:14:48.090 --> 00:14:50.149
all of these, and then I'll play with everything

00:14:50.149 --> 00:14:52.710
all at once. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. I

00:14:52.710 --> 00:14:56.029
feel like Lloyd, like, if he got interested in

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something, then. Then that kind of kept him.

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Yeah, entertained for a little bit. No, Colt

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was, like, very much just if there was something

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wrapped under the tree. He had to open it. Yeah,

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we've got to open all of these. And no matter

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if it was, like. A book versus, like, a ginormous

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toy. Like, they were all equal until after. Like,

00:15:18.580 --> 00:15:21.820
then he played with all of them. Which, to be

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fair, is the move. Because you have to find out

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what the most important gift is. For sure. Yeah.

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Yeah. And it was totally, like, our bad for not

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putting batteries in some things before we wrapped

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them. Which, like, I will not do that from now

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on. Because. then when he did want to play with

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it after it's a big deal yeah then i'm like hold

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on buddy i gotta find some double a batteries

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and i'm like what a dumb dumb should have done

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this before we only had one gift that had that

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required batteries and we didn't realize it so

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we just like because it's also a truck like it's

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a truck with road builder trucks in it oh nice

00:16:02.149 --> 00:16:05.029
so we were i bet that was a hit still just haven't

00:16:05.029 --> 00:16:08.740
put batteries in it And he doesn't care. Nope.

00:16:08.980 --> 00:16:11.279
He doesn't need to know. Yeah. We're like, we're

00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:13.539
just going to run with this as long as we can.

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Oh, my gosh. Yeah. I feel like it was so fun

00:16:17.779 --> 00:16:22.519
to have, like, with both having two -year -olds,

00:16:22.539 --> 00:16:26.059
like, them actually interested in, like, Christmas

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and the holiday cheer and all the things and

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actually getting to, like, do those things this

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year was really fun. exciting for us to be able

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to like see through the lens of our kids this

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year yeah yeah we have one neighbor in particular

00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:47.220
that put up christmas lights i mean we had a

00:16:47.220 --> 00:16:50.279
couple who did but not a ton but one in particular

00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:53.480
that lloyd was like fixated on so every night

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it's like we have to go see if this neighbor's

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christmas lights are on and now that christmas

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is over he'll say you know this neighbor uh christmas

00:17:03.679 --> 00:17:07.170
lights are gone It's not Christmas anymore. You're

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like, yeah. It's not Christmas. That's true,

00:17:09.589 --> 00:17:13.069
buddy. It's so true. Sorry it's over. Yeah. Oh,

00:17:13.349 --> 00:17:16.369
that's cute. Yeah. But so tell us about your

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Christmas. I would love to. I can laugh about

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it now. But so we went out to California for

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Christmas. So both Michael and I work at. work

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at the church here. And so we did all of Christmas

00:17:31.269 --> 00:17:34.950
services. So it was six services. And you did

00:17:34.950 --> 00:17:37.170
like your family Christmas before. Yes. Oh yeah.

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So we did our family Christmas. I think it was

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on the 19th. Um, and we did like, yeah, put all

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presents under the tree and we, we did do Santa.

00:17:45.490 --> 00:17:48.410
So we did like, we bake cookies. We set those

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out for Santa. I actually forgot to put milk

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out, which whatever is fine. It'll be fine. And

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then we did like, um, fake little like footprints

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um santa footprints and then yeah we wrapped

00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:02.960
a bunch of gifts and then we left like the santa

00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:06.140
gifts unwrapped okay um which is what my family

00:18:06.140 --> 00:18:10.640
did or what yeah we did growing up and i mean

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crews i just like carried down but Colt was so

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cute. Like we went into his room and we said

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like, oh, Santa came. And he's like, oh, he like

00:18:19.740 --> 00:18:23.259
got so excited. And then we like walked him down

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the stairs and he just like, I mean, he just

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loved it. He like saw the footprints. We went

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over and looked to see if Santa ate the cookies

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and Santa left him a little note. And then. He

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just started like looking at everything and some

00:18:38.579 --> 00:18:41.700
of it was for Cruz, but he still thinks everything

00:18:41.700 --> 00:18:44.960
is for him. Yes. Yeah. It was just like such

00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:48.119
a special morning for us. And I'm so glad that

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we did. We like took the time to just do it with

00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:54.019
the four of us. Yeah. And like some of the gifts

00:18:54.019 --> 00:18:56.960
were from family. So we like pre -wrapped those

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family like. mailed it to us um so then we like

00:19:00.869 --> 00:19:02.849
called family and said thank you for certain

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things and then we literally just spent we had

00:19:06.230 --> 00:19:08.809
christmas service that night but we spent like

00:19:08.809 --> 00:19:11.589
pretty much all day just playing with all of

00:19:11.589 --> 00:19:13.990
the toys yeah that's how we did too yeah just

00:19:13.990 --> 00:19:18.410
it was so fun so fun and so special yeah it's

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like one of my it was probably one of my favorite

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days from last year of just like Yeah, we had

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a great morning, lots of like laughing and just

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fun and stayed in our pajamas pretty much all

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day until we had to go to church. And I am really

00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:35.380
looking forward to that continuing over the years.

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Yeah. Yeah, it was just super fun to take that

00:19:39.480 --> 00:19:43.220
time to have as a family. Yeah. So that was super

00:19:43.220 --> 00:19:47.039
great. Then we did six church services. And so

00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:50.339
our kids were in kids ministry for all six services,

00:19:50.420 --> 00:19:53.700
which is... That's a lot for two little kids.

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That's a lot for anyone. Yeah. Yeah. It was a

00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:58.920
lot for me to, like, work all those services.

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And I can't imagine, like, especially for Cole.

00:20:01.660 --> 00:20:03.880
I'm like, he's doing the same art project six

00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:06.779
times. Yeah. Like, poor kid. He's hearing the

00:20:06.779 --> 00:20:09.680
same story. Yeah. And he did great. He's going

00:20:09.680 --> 00:20:11.440
to know the Christmas story really well. Yeah.

00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:14.779
He did so great. We didn't hear anything that,

00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:17.200
like. You know, he was having a hard time during

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the service or anything like that. He didn't

00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:20.980
bite anyone this time? As far as I know, he didn't

00:20:20.980 --> 00:20:23.140
bite anyone. And he tells us now when we pick

00:20:23.140 --> 00:20:24.720
him up. Okay, well, that's good. Mom, I no bite

00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:27.920
anyone. Good. I'm like, oh, good, buddy. And

00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:29.859
he doesn't know to lie yet. Yeah. That hasn't

00:20:29.859 --> 00:20:32.400
clicked on in their brain yet. Yes, yeah. You

00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:35.240
know he's telling the truth. Yeah. And so did

00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:38.099
all six services. We actually, so on Sunday,

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there was two services in the morning. And then

00:20:40.819 --> 00:20:43.640
we left from church. to go straight to the airport.

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Perfect. And our thought process behind that

00:20:46.140 --> 00:20:48.960
was like, Oh, we're gonna like the kids will

00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:51.859
nap in the car. Um, and like, that's going to

00:20:51.859 --> 00:20:55.380
be their nap because like ideally the next flight

00:20:55.380 --> 00:20:58.039
was like a 6 PM flight. And we like, we were

00:20:58.039 --> 00:21:00.559
like, let's just go. Our, the flight was at four.

00:21:00.660 --> 00:21:03.690
So Went straight to the airport. Both kids didn't

00:21:03.690 --> 00:21:06.109
fall asleep until we were, like, 15 minutes away

00:21:06.109 --> 00:21:08.769
from the airport. Naturally. Naturally. So they

00:21:08.769 --> 00:21:12.190
each got a 15 -minute nap. Love it. Before a

00:21:12.190 --> 00:21:14.829
two -hour flight? Yeah, a two -hour flight. And

00:21:14.829 --> 00:21:19.470
surprisingly, like, both kids were in okay moods.

00:21:19.470 --> 00:21:21.910
And, I mean, you float a lot with the kids, so

00:21:21.910 --> 00:21:23.730
that helps, too. Yeah, and we've kind of got

00:21:23.730 --> 00:21:27.769
it down of, like, Cruz is starting to get too

00:21:27.769 --> 00:21:29.769
big for the carrier, but, like, I'll strap him

00:21:29.769 --> 00:21:35.589
on. And then Colt will just walk. And he, like,

00:21:35.589 --> 00:21:37.470
carries his little backpack. That's so cute.

00:21:37.609 --> 00:21:39.990
It's very cute. But, like, getting him to, like,

00:21:40.130 --> 00:21:43.049
come on, buddy. Let's go. Let's go. And then

00:21:43.049 --> 00:21:45.450
with only a 15 -minute nap, it's, like, a little

00:21:45.450 --> 00:21:48.190
bit slower. Yeah. But get through to the airport.

00:21:48.609 --> 00:21:51.789
Everything's great. Get on the plane. I think

00:21:51.789 --> 00:21:56.490
that cruise slept most of the flight. if I'm

00:21:56.490 --> 00:21:59.210
remembering correctly. And Colt, we let him play

00:21:59.210 --> 00:22:01.990
on the iPad for the plane. And that's the only

00:22:01.990 --> 00:22:05.289
time he gets an iPad. So it's like a fun, like

00:22:05.289 --> 00:22:09.369
he gets really excited for it. Yeah, yeah. And

00:22:09.369 --> 00:22:15.109
so he did great too. We get off the plane and

00:22:15.109 --> 00:22:18.029
then it kind of went downhill from there. For

00:22:18.029 --> 00:22:21.950
some reason, our bags took forever to get to

00:22:21.950 --> 00:22:24.609
baggage claim. I'm not even kidding, like 45

00:22:24.609 --> 00:22:27.170
minutes that we're waiting for our bags. That's

00:22:27.170 --> 00:22:29.430
crazy. And so our ride, Michael's aunt came and

00:22:29.430 --> 00:22:33.829
picked us up, got there. And so me and Colton

00:22:33.829 --> 00:22:35.930
Cruz went out to the car while Michael waited

00:22:35.930 --> 00:22:39.430
for the bags. But then security got all mad.

00:22:39.769 --> 00:22:41.529
They won't let you just sit there. No, they wouldn't

00:22:41.529 --> 00:22:43.430
let us just sit there. So then I had to unload

00:22:43.430 --> 00:22:48.329
the boys and go back in because, oh, no, because

00:22:48.329 --> 00:22:52.649
our car seat hadn't arrived yet for Cruz. And

00:22:52.649 --> 00:22:55.369
Colt's car seat was not attached. Like, Michael

00:22:55.369 --> 00:22:57.789
needed to come attach it. Gotcha. And so there

00:22:57.789 --> 00:23:00.190
were no car seats in the car for the boys. So

00:23:00.190 --> 00:23:03.109
then I had to take the boys out of the car. We

00:23:03.109 --> 00:23:04.930
were just, like, hanging out inside the car.

00:23:05.089 --> 00:23:08.430
Yeah. And Michael's aunt had to, like, keep looping

00:23:08.430 --> 00:23:11.410
around until we got our bags. And in that time,

00:23:11.589 --> 00:23:15.690
Colt decided to poop. Oh, okay. Yeah, just as

00:23:15.690 --> 00:23:17.869
we're waiting for bags. So he's, like, under

00:23:17.869 --> 00:23:22.769
the bench. in baggage claim area, just like pooping

00:23:22.769 --> 00:23:25.430
and like getting, like yelling at me when I'm

00:23:25.430 --> 00:23:27.690
like, buddy, we gotta go. And he's like, no mom,

00:23:27.869 --> 00:23:31.309
stop. And I could tell then I was like, Oh, something's

00:23:31.309 --> 00:23:34.750
like, he's super overtired. I knew that. But

00:23:34.750 --> 00:23:37.869
also I'm like, he's like pooping for a long time

00:23:37.869 --> 00:23:42.130
here. And so then finally like get him out of

00:23:42.130 --> 00:23:43.950
the airport. We get our bags, get him out of

00:23:43.950 --> 00:23:45.910
the airport. He's having a full blown tantrum,

00:23:45.910 --> 00:23:49.220
like change him in the trunk. And then we get

00:23:49.220 --> 00:23:52.660
all loaded up, drive to Michael's aunt's house,

00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:55.400
which that ended up being fine. I was like, both

00:23:55.400 --> 00:23:59.220
boys need to stay awake, which they did, surprisingly.

00:23:59.819 --> 00:24:02.619
And then, of course, that night we get to Michael's

00:24:02.619 --> 00:24:05.140
aunt's house and we're having – it's one of their

00:24:05.140 --> 00:24:08.140
family traditions to do pizza and watch Elf and

00:24:08.140 --> 00:24:11.140
then all wear matching pajamas. And so that was

00:24:11.140 --> 00:24:14.839
that night. So we get to – michael's aunt's house

00:24:14.839 --> 00:24:16.940
i think it was like seven o 'clock by now or

00:24:16.940 --> 00:24:19.099
something and so i'm like both boys just need

00:24:19.099 --> 00:24:22.099
to go to sleep but we're staying up to eat pizza

00:24:22.099 --> 00:24:26.380
watch elf yeah and both boys did great then got

00:24:26.380 --> 00:24:30.420
them to bed and then i think it was at like maybe

00:24:30.420 --> 00:24:33.859
12 30 so our sleeping arrangements i sleep in

00:24:33.859 --> 00:24:37.130
michael's aunt's room with And then Michael sleeps

00:24:37.130 --> 00:24:39.470
in the guest room with Colt. And then Michael's

00:24:39.470 --> 00:24:41.089
aunt sleeps in the living room, which I feel

00:24:41.089 --> 00:24:44.089
bad for. What a gem, though. Just, like, letting

00:24:44.089 --> 00:24:47.710
it happen that way. Yeah. All that to say, Michael

00:24:47.710 --> 00:24:51.210
comes into the room at, I think it was, like,

00:24:51.210 --> 00:24:55.509
1230. And, like, I was feeding Cruz, so I was

00:24:55.509 --> 00:24:58.490
already awake. And he goes, Laura, Colt just

00:24:58.490 --> 00:25:01.589
threw up all over himself. I was like, oh, my

00:25:01.589 --> 00:25:05.000
God. I was like, are you serious? What everyone

00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:08.200
wants to hear. Yeah. I'm like, oh, gosh. Okay.

00:25:08.900 --> 00:25:11.200
And of course, Cruz is awake. So I'm like, just

00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:13.960
unlatch him and just like carry him into the

00:25:13.960 --> 00:25:17.819
room. And Colt literally was, he was sitting

00:25:17.819 --> 00:25:21.180
in the pack and play, just like shaking. Poor

00:25:21.180 --> 00:25:23.819
buddy. And I was like, are you okay, buddy? And

00:25:23.819 --> 00:25:27.539
he goes, yeah, I'm okay. I was like, okay, buddy.

00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:31.599
I was like, do you feel okay? Yeah. I was like,

00:25:31.680 --> 00:25:34.089
okay. Well, let's get you cleaned up. I was like,

00:25:34.150 --> 00:25:37.450
and he was super, like, agreeable to everything.

00:25:37.609 --> 00:25:40.529
And I think it, like, must have scared him. Yeah.

00:25:40.609 --> 00:25:42.529
Because he was, like, shaking, but he just was

00:25:42.529 --> 00:25:45.170
like, okay, whatever I need to do. So I, like,

00:25:45.170 --> 00:25:49.109
get him out of the bed, get him, like, get all

00:25:49.109 --> 00:25:53.089
his blankets out, get his new pajamas on. I,

00:25:53.130 --> 00:25:55.109
like, I don't think I ended up giving him a bath

00:25:55.109 --> 00:25:57.349
because it was just, like, on his pajamas and

00:25:57.349 --> 00:26:00.190
then his blankets. So then I just, we got him

00:26:00.190 --> 00:26:05.019
new jammies. And then got him back into bed.

00:26:05.480 --> 00:26:10.000
And then probably an hour later or something,

00:26:10.200 --> 00:26:13.079
I'm like laying with him. And Michael then took

00:26:13.079 --> 00:26:15.019
Cruz into the other room. So we just switched.

00:26:15.640 --> 00:26:20.119
Colt like sits up and pukes again. And thankfully

00:26:20.119 --> 00:26:24.480
I got a bowl. A bowl. Perfect. Yeah. With the

00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:27.480
paper towels. I like didn't catch it all, but

00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:30.480
I caught most of it in the bowl. So then we ended

00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:33.240
up having it. Then changed the sheets on the

00:26:33.240 --> 00:26:37.119
whole bed. This was probably like 1 .30 or something.

00:26:37.700 --> 00:26:42.099
And then changed Colt's pajamas again. And then

00:26:42.099 --> 00:26:44.819
laid back down. Finally get Colt asleep again.

00:26:45.740 --> 00:26:48.519
And then he wakes up and pukes again. And I was

00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:52.200
like. After the second puke, Michael and I were

00:26:52.200 --> 00:26:54.420
like, maybe he just, like, I mean, he ate a lot

00:26:54.420 --> 00:26:58.240
of candy. He, like, had pizza. He had a 15 -minute

00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:01.380
nap. Like, he's probably just super overtired.

00:27:01.420 --> 00:27:04.400
And when I'm super overtired, I feel gross. Yeah.

00:27:04.440 --> 00:27:06.500
And, like, I want to throw up sometimes. Again,

00:27:06.500 --> 00:27:08.160
lots of sugar. That makes it worse. Like, he

00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:11.140
doesn't usually have this much sugar. And then,

00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:15.200
yeah, after the third time, we were like, I think

00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:18.329
he's sick. he's sick i'm like he got sick from

00:27:18.329 --> 00:27:21.289
church from christmas services like we're going

00:27:21.289 --> 00:27:25.289
down all right here we go so then the next morning

00:27:25.289 --> 00:27:28.829
he like seemed totally fine throughout the day

00:27:28.829 --> 00:27:30.789
we're like okay maybe it's just like a quick

00:27:30.789 --> 00:27:33.970
like 12 hour thing or whatever and like sometimes

00:27:33.970 --> 00:27:35.769
if you eat something funky you know it's like

00:27:35.769 --> 00:27:38.430
it like messes with your tummy it's like low

00:27:38.430 --> 00:27:41.130
-key food poisoning right we are like okay it's

00:27:41.130 --> 00:27:44.150
out of my system now i feel yeah And so we still

00:27:44.150 --> 00:27:47.930
kind of thought that for like the next 24 hours.

00:27:48.269 --> 00:27:50.990
We like ended up trying to go up to my mom's

00:27:50.990 --> 00:27:52.930
house that night because we were going to do

00:27:52.930 --> 00:27:55.910
like cookie decorating at her house. And we were

00:27:55.910 --> 00:27:58.529
like, oh, Colt's feeling good. And then he pukes

00:27:58.529 --> 00:28:00.789
in the car on the way up there. So then we just

00:28:00.789 --> 00:28:04.269
turned around. Was it a rental car too? No, thankfully.

00:28:04.349 --> 00:28:07.490
It was, well, it was a family car. But I like

00:28:07.490 --> 00:28:09.450
caught it in the bowl because we brought the

00:28:09.450 --> 00:28:12.099
bullets. The bowl had been through a lot with

00:28:12.099 --> 00:28:15.119
us that week. Mom reflexes right there. Well,

00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:17.440
I like was, I sat in the back with them because

00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:19.619
I was like, if there's a chance that Colt's going

00:28:19.619 --> 00:28:22.039
to get sick. For sure. I'm like, I'd rather be

00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:25.539
right here. I have the bowl. Yeah. And I like

00:28:25.539 --> 00:28:27.319
probably 10 minutes into our drive, I was like

00:28:27.319 --> 00:28:29.259
looking at Colt and he's just kind of like staring.

00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:33.019
And I'm like, I like, yeah, I'm like, hey, Michael,

00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:37.769
I think he's going to T -H -R -O -W up. Like

00:28:37.769 --> 00:28:41.329
we spell a lot of things. Yeah. He's like, oh,

00:28:41.410 --> 00:28:43.269
really? And then it was like within the next

00:28:43.269 --> 00:28:46.930
minute he's like throwing up. And so I was ready

00:28:46.930 --> 00:28:52.109
for it. Nice. So not very much got on him or

00:28:52.109 --> 00:28:55.109
the car seat, thankfully. That's good. So then

00:28:55.109 --> 00:28:57.529
we just turned around and we were like, yeah,

00:28:57.710 --> 00:29:00.630
we're going to give it another day. It's like

00:29:00.630 --> 00:29:04.579
he's not feeling good still. And it sucks being

00:29:04.579 --> 00:29:06.839
sick not in your house, too. Like, no matter

00:29:06.839 --> 00:29:09.180
who you are. But I would imagine especially this

00:29:09.180 --> 00:29:12.700
little kid who, like, has less logic and regulation.

00:29:12.799 --> 00:29:14.619
You know, it's like, I don't want to be sick

00:29:14.619 --> 00:29:17.640
not in my own bed and throwing up in someone

00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:20.839
else's toilet. I know. I know. And I felt so

00:29:20.839 --> 00:29:24.200
bad. And he had such a good attitude through

00:29:24.200 --> 00:29:26.680
all of it. I'm like, I know he feels so crappy,

00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:29.390
but he's like. He's still playing as much as

00:29:29.390 --> 00:29:31.710
he can. He's like still trying. And that's like

00:29:31.710 --> 00:29:34.089
what doctors always say too of like, well, how

00:29:34.089 --> 00:29:36.009
are they acting? Like that's the indicator of

00:29:36.009 --> 00:29:38.529
how sick they are. They're like, okay, it can't

00:29:38.529 --> 00:29:41.730
be that bad. And originally we wouldn't have

00:29:41.730 --> 00:29:44.190
even tried to go up to my mom's house if we knew

00:29:44.190 --> 00:29:47.029
he was feeling bad still. He just didn't seem

00:29:47.029 --> 00:29:50.170
like he was feeling bad. And so then, yeah, I

00:29:50.170 --> 00:29:53.420
was like I canceled on my mom. I was like, I

00:29:53.420 --> 00:29:55.259
just don't want to get anyone else sick if this

00:29:55.259 --> 00:29:58.880
is not food poisoning or whatever we thought

00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:03.359
it was. So then, yeah, next day was the 23rd.

00:30:03.420 --> 00:30:06.339
We ended up just like chilling the whole time.

00:30:06.380 --> 00:30:08.220
We didn't do anything because we were like, let's

00:30:08.220 --> 00:30:11.500
just give Cole a day to relax. I think we watched

00:30:11.500 --> 00:30:14.859
a lot of TV and just hung out at the house. Then

00:30:14.859 --> 00:30:18.019
Christmas Eve, he seemed fine again. So we like

00:30:18.019 --> 00:30:19.980
had to finish some Christmas shopping. So I think

00:30:19.980 --> 00:30:23.140
we did that. And then went to a Christmas Eve

00:30:23.140 --> 00:30:26.640
service there. And he was totally fine. And then

00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:29.779
went to bed that night on Christmas Eve. And

00:30:29.779 --> 00:30:33.240
I think, yeah, Michael and Colt were like, Colt

00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:35.140
was not in the pack and play. They were just

00:30:35.140 --> 00:30:39.319
in the bed together. And then once again, around

00:30:39.319 --> 00:30:44.200
probably 1 a .m., Michael comes in and says,

00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:48.220
Laura Colt just pooped everywhere. I was like.

00:30:50.279 --> 00:30:52.599
Are you serious? Cruz was once again already

00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:56.480
awake. You take care of it this time. Carry Cruz

00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:00.839
in, hand Cruz to Michael and shine my light.

00:31:00.980 --> 00:31:04.200
And Colt's literally just laying. I wish I had

00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:06.579
a picture of it. Poor, poor buddy. I hope this

00:31:06.579 --> 00:31:09.039
doesn't embarrass him like years from now if

00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:12.839
he listens back. But he, I'm not even joking.

00:31:12.900 --> 00:31:17.980
There was poop everywhere. Like all up his front.

00:31:18.299 --> 00:31:21.299
all up his back, all on the bed, on the pillow.

00:31:22.740 --> 00:31:25.079
Surprisingly, not any on Michael, which he is

00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:28.200
still very surprised. But Michael said he like

00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:31.500
woke up and, you know, like when like your pet

00:31:31.500 --> 00:31:34.539
like pukes or poops like everywhere and you like

00:31:34.539 --> 00:31:36.960
wake up and you can just like smell it and you

00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:40.039
know. It was like that situation where Michael

00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:42.599
said he woke up and he like then woke Colt up

00:31:42.599 --> 00:31:44.519
and said, Colt, did you poop? And Colt goes,

00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:48.920
no, dad. To be fair, if someone woke me up and

00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:52.960
just immediately asked if I pooped. I'd be pissed

00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:57.160
off too. I would also be pissed, yeah. But I'm

00:31:57.160 --> 00:31:58.859
not even kidding. I've never seen so much poop

00:31:58.859 --> 00:32:02.319
in my life. And poor buddy, once again, he was

00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:05.559
so agreeable. And like when I go in there and

00:32:05.559 --> 00:32:07.740
I'm like, okay, buddy, this is what we're going

00:32:07.740 --> 00:32:10.640
to do. I'm going to help you stand up and then

00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:12.400
I'm going to carry you to the bathroom. He goes,

00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:16.759
okay, mom. Okay. And so I like. Pick him up and

00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:18.460
it's one of those ones where you like hold him

00:32:18.460 --> 00:32:21.440
far away from your body. Go into the bathroom.

00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:24.519
And this diaper was like, it was the heaviest

00:32:24.519 --> 00:32:27.839
diaper I've ever felt in my life. And it was

00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:29.259
one of those moments where. We need a trash bag

00:32:29.259 --> 00:32:32.960
just for this one diaper. No, we legit threw

00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:35.720
his pajamas away. We threw all of the bedding

00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:38.519
away. We did not even try to clean the bedding.

00:32:39.019 --> 00:32:43.480
And we ran the bath, got him in the bath. Got

00:32:43.480 --> 00:32:45.619
him all cleaned up. And then in the bath, he

00:32:45.619 --> 00:32:48.339
goes, Mama, I have to poo -poo. And I go, Oh,

00:32:48.339 --> 00:32:51.680
no. Take him out of the bath. And he pooped on

00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:54.500
the potty, which I'm so thankful for. But it

00:32:54.500 --> 00:32:58.140
was, sorry if this is TMI to anyone, but it was

00:32:58.140 --> 00:33:00.240
one of those moments. He goes, Mom, I'm peeing.

00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:04.359
And I go, No, buddy. You're pooping. This is

00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:06.660
different. But good job. We're going to get stickers

00:33:06.660 --> 00:33:11.630
for your potty chart. And poor buddy. We thought

00:33:11.630 --> 00:33:13.750
the sickness, like, he was done with the sickness.

00:33:13.750 --> 00:33:15.710
But it was, like, yeah, two days later where

00:33:15.710 --> 00:33:20.710
it just, like, hit him in another wave. And so

00:33:20.710 --> 00:33:23.509
then it was probably the next three or four hours

00:33:23.509 --> 00:33:25.869
where he went through, like, 10 to 15 diapers

00:33:25.869 --> 00:33:31.849
of just, yeah. And then next day was Christmas.

00:33:32.430 --> 00:33:35.289
And we're, like, we're. Merry Christmas. Yeah,

00:33:35.289 --> 00:33:38.769
Merry Christmas. And since he was just, like,

00:33:38.769 --> 00:33:42.789
having. diarrhea we still went to the family

00:33:42.789 --> 00:33:46.710
things which i we probably shouldn't have honestly

00:33:46.710 --> 00:33:50.390
thankfully like no one else got sick but and

00:33:50.390 --> 00:33:53.509
he like colt was acting fine other than his tummy

00:33:53.509 --> 00:33:56.109
was just upset right and he's still like he still

00:33:56.109 --> 00:33:59.309
ate breakfast he like still ate and stuff but

00:33:59.309 --> 00:34:03.309
it just like we call it poopmageddon it was appropriate

00:34:03.309 --> 00:34:07.289
yeah yeah It was pretty bad. But he like still

00:34:07.289 --> 00:34:09.030
had a great Christmas. We had a great Christmas.

00:34:09.110 --> 00:34:12.630
He just like was pooping a ton. And then it was

00:34:12.630 --> 00:34:16.889
the next day we went up to my dad's house after

00:34:16.889 --> 00:34:20.650
Christmas. Everything seemed fine. I like was

00:34:20.650 --> 00:34:24.570
like, I just, I feel like not. I was like, I

00:34:24.570 --> 00:34:26.630
feel kind of off. I don't know if it was like

00:34:26.630 --> 00:34:30.570
just I'm exhausted from traveling. We haven't

00:34:30.570 --> 00:34:33.090
really like gotten rest in any sense. You've

00:34:33.090 --> 00:34:36.130
been up with vomit or poop every single night

00:34:36.130 --> 00:34:37.849
since you've been gone. You've probably eaten

00:34:37.849 --> 00:34:40.869
a ton of sugar yourself. Yep. Yep. And Cruz like

00:34:40.869 --> 00:34:45.530
was not sleeping good at all. And so I was like,

00:34:45.590 --> 00:34:48.449
I just I wasn't really hungry. I don't know.

00:34:48.489 --> 00:34:51.670
I felt kind of off. And then that night going

00:34:51.670 --> 00:34:55.840
to bed. the sickness hit me. Perfect. Yeah. And

00:34:55.840 --> 00:34:59.300
was Cruz finally better at this point? Uh, Cole.

00:34:59.519 --> 00:35:02.500
Yeah. Cole was finally better. Yeah. Yeah. And

00:35:02.500 --> 00:35:05.539
it's one of those moments where I'm like, I wish

00:35:05.539 --> 00:35:07.619
we would have all just gotten sick at the same

00:35:07.619 --> 00:35:10.159
time and had to like a terrible two days rather

00:35:10.159 --> 00:35:13.539
than like staggered. Cause then it hit me and

00:35:13.539 --> 00:35:16.679
I'm not going to go into too much detail here.

00:35:16.739 --> 00:35:21.889
Mostly for my. my safety my reputation because

00:35:21.889 --> 00:35:25.710
you get embarrassed too yes but it is so hard

00:35:25.710 --> 00:35:29.989
to nurse a child when you feel like you're gonna

00:35:29.989 --> 00:35:33.550
vomit all over the place yeah and those are the

00:35:33.550 --> 00:35:36.969
moments that really humble me of like this sucks

00:35:36.969 --> 00:35:40.269
yeah and i think it we were talking about it

00:35:40.269 --> 00:35:43.440
that i think it should be illegal for parents

00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:47.079
to be sick especially moms I agree yeah that

00:35:47.079 --> 00:35:48.539
should be just not allowed I've been sick this

00:35:48.539 --> 00:35:50.179
week not that kind of sick but I've just had

00:35:50.179 --> 00:35:52.599
a cold this week and it's so terrible strongly

00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:56.380
agree yeah and so I then I was down for the count

00:35:56.380 --> 00:35:59.199
for like the next surprisingly I feel like I

00:35:59.199 --> 00:36:01.960
bounced back fairly quickly it was like that

00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:05.159
all night that that first night and then I just

00:36:05.159 --> 00:36:09.050
like slept for As much as I could until the evening

00:36:09.050 --> 00:36:11.349
that next day. That's nice that you got some

00:36:11.349 --> 00:36:14.110
sleep. And Michael's aunt was super helpful.

00:36:14.730 --> 00:36:17.829
Helped with the kids. Is she letting you stay

00:36:17.829 --> 00:36:20.070
ever again now that you... I know. We've asked

00:36:20.070 --> 00:36:21.960
her. I'm like... You're not going to want us

00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:24.440
to stay here. And she's like, stop it. No, you

00:36:24.440 --> 00:36:26.139
guys are always welcome here. I'm like, do you

00:36:26.139 --> 00:36:29.039
know how many bodily fluids my family got all

00:36:29.039 --> 00:36:32.340
over your ass? So much Lysol was used. I'm not

00:36:32.340 --> 00:36:34.619
even kidding. And every time someone was sick,

00:36:34.780 --> 00:36:36.960
we're like, all right, we've moved past this.

00:36:37.059 --> 00:36:39.239
So then we like cleaned everything, like all

00:36:39.239 --> 00:36:41.940
the sheets, Lysoled everything, Cloroxed everything,

00:36:42.139 --> 00:36:44.500
and then someone else would go down. So then,

00:36:44.500 --> 00:36:47.539
yeah, then I was out for like 24 hours. And then

00:36:47.539 --> 00:36:50.599
the next day, I think we were five. the next

00:36:50.599 --> 00:36:53.360
day and then it was the next morning after that

00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:56.719
it hit michael perfect and so then he was down

00:36:56.719 --> 00:37:00.079
for he legit probably slept like 18 hours like

00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:04.820
the next i've had those 24 hours i'm like at

00:37:04.820 --> 00:37:06.599
one point i was like do i need to go check on

00:37:06.599 --> 00:37:11.420
him is he like is he dead in there but I don't

00:37:11.420 --> 00:37:13.099
think you would mind me saying this, but I've

00:37:13.099 --> 00:37:16.739
only heard Michael puke twice in our entire 10

00:37:16.739 --> 00:37:20.079
-year relationship, 11 years that we've been

00:37:20.079 --> 00:37:23.860
together. So that's when you know it's bad for

00:37:23.860 --> 00:37:26.360
him because he will do anything in all of his

00:37:26.360 --> 00:37:28.739
power to never throw up because he hates it so

00:37:28.739 --> 00:37:30.820
much. And I'm one of those people that I'm like,

00:37:30.900 --> 00:37:32.940
let's just, you know, if it's going to make me

00:37:32.940 --> 00:37:36.400
feel better. Yeah, I feel like. prior to pregnancy

00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:38.380
i would do anything i could to not throw up yeah

00:37:38.380 --> 00:37:42.500
now that i've dealt with like pretty serious

00:37:42.500 --> 00:37:44.699
i don't know if it's that serious but having

00:37:44.699 --> 00:37:47.119
dealt with morning sickness and like throwing

00:37:47.119 --> 00:37:49.639
up multiple times a day i'm kind of like yeah

00:37:49.639 --> 00:37:51.800
if it's gonna make me feel better yeah i'll get

00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:54.340
it over with yep i still don't want to like no

00:37:54.340 --> 00:37:57.159
one wants to throw up but but if it's gonna make

00:37:57.159 --> 00:38:00.639
you feel better um so then he was he was down

00:38:00.639 --> 00:38:05.909
for the next yeah 24 to 48 -ish hours. I forget

00:38:05.909 --> 00:38:08.170
kind of what it was. It's all blur at this point.

00:38:08.409 --> 00:38:10.969
And I was still not feeling like super great

00:38:10.969 --> 00:38:14.030
at this point, but you just power through. You

00:38:14.030 --> 00:38:17.190
do. Like my kids need me to be. There's nothing

00:38:17.190 --> 00:38:21.110
else you can do. No, no. So then, yeah, then

00:38:21.110 --> 00:38:23.789
Michael like two mornings later I think would

00:38:23.789 --> 00:38:25.969
like bounce back and he's like, all right, I'm

00:38:25.969 --> 00:38:28.960
good to go. You're like, today's the day we leave.

00:38:29.099 --> 00:38:31.320
Yeah. And so I think we did get out of the house

00:38:31.320 --> 00:38:33.219
that day. I think we went to like Barnes and

00:38:33.219 --> 00:38:36.179
Noble. Perfect. And we were like, we just need

00:38:36.179 --> 00:38:38.860
Colt. Yeah. Colt just needs to like, I don't

00:38:38.860 --> 00:38:40.460
know. We just need to get out of the house. Yeah.

00:38:40.679 --> 00:38:44.619
And then that night I'm like, okay, I think we're,

00:38:44.659 --> 00:38:47.239
we had like two days left of our trip. I was

00:38:47.239 --> 00:38:49.559
like, okay, we're going to have a really good

00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:53.219
last two days. And then Cruz started puking that

00:38:53.219 --> 00:38:56.489
night. Yeah. And I was like, originally I was

00:38:56.489 --> 00:38:59.750
like, I think Cruz made it through. I was like,

00:38:59.829 --> 00:39:01.710
breast milk has a lot of antibodies. It does.

00:39:02.070 --> 00:39:05.090
I'm like, I think we're in the clear. And then

00:39:05.090 --> 00:39:07.530
he puked. Nope. And I'm like, the first time

00:39:07.530 --> 00:39:09.090
he puked, I was like, maybe he just overate.

00:39:09.610 --> 00:39:14.250
And then he puked two more times. And it's. I

00:39:14.250 --> 00:39:17.469
felt so bad. I feel extra bad for babies who

00:39:17.469 --> 00:39:19.789
like they have no idea what's going on. And you

00:39:19.789 --> 00:39:22.289
can't explain it to them. And he's just like

00:39:22.289 --> 00:39:25.289
crying and like he has nothing left to puke and

00:39:25.289 --> 00:39:28.869
he's just like trying to and it's so sad. And

00:39:28.869 --> 00:39:33.489
so then, yeah, he thankfully, I feel like his

00:39:33.489 --> 00:39:37.340
was like the shortest. The shortest little stint.

00:39:37.340 --> 00:39:39.719
His was just through the night. Okay, that's

00:39:39.719 --> 00:39:42.000
not bad. And then he seemed okay the next day.

00:39:42.019 --> 00:39:44.739
The next day he just kind of slept a lot. But

00:39:44.739 --> 00:39:48.920
he seemed okay. But all that to say, yeah, then

00:39:48.920 --> 00:39:51.119
we had like one day where it was good. And then

00:39:51.119 --> 00:39:52.960
we left. And then we came home. Great, great,

00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:56.099
great. All that to say our holidays was not what

00:39:56.099 --> 00:39:58.940
we expected. We had to cancel on a lot of different

00:39:58.940 --> 00:40:03.219
things. We ended up, I do think. there was some

00:40:03.219 --> 00:40:05.920
benefits to it. Like it forced us to slow down

00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:10.579
and like our lives are so busy. And I think that,

00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:13.780
yeah, we don't get to slow down very often for

00:40:13.780 --> 00:40:16.980
sure. And so this was like a forced rest. It

00:40:16.980 --> 00:40:19.119
didn't obviously look like what we wanted it

00:40:19.119 --> 00:40:21.500
to look like. And we didn't get to like, I didn't

00:40:21.500 --> 00:40:23.019
get to see some of my friends in California.

00:40:23.059 --> 00:40:25.639
I was planning to get my hair done. Didn't do

00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:27.519
that. We were supposed to go to a baby shower,

00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:30.889
a birthday party. supposed to spend more time

00:40:30.889 --> 00:40:33.929
with my family and it just none of that happened

00:40:33.929 --> 00:40:37.130
right so we kind of left our trip feeling discouraged

00:40:37.130 --> 00:40:40.369
and just like well that's a huge rubber to like

00:40:40.369 --> 00:40:44.269
travel yeah to go see all these people and then

00:40:44.269 --> 00:40:46.150
and then we're just sick yeah you're like i would

00:40:46.150 --> 00:40:50.650
rather just be sick at home yeah yeah and so

00:40:50.650 --> 00:40:52.969
yeah part of us were like well what if i wish

00:40:52.969 --> 00:40:58.190
we kind of just hadn't come but then i'm glad

00:40:58.190 --> 00:41:01.389
we did go But it is the side of, like, I wish

00:41:01.389 --> 00:41:04.849
I was sick in my own home and not someone else's.

00:41:05.369 --> 00:41:08.150
Thankfully, Michael's aunt never got sick. That's

00:41:08.150 --> 00:41:11.050
crazy. It's so crazy. Because she, I mean, she

00:41:11.050 --> 00:41:14.449
helped us clean everything every time someone

00:41:14.449 --> 00:41:17.329
was sick. So has she been sated yet? I know,

00:41:17.369 --> 00:41:20.730
right? She's, like, one of those people that

00:41:20.730 --> 00:41:24.000
she didn't get COVID for, like. three years or

00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:27.440
something when COVID was like a big thing. She

00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:30.139
just has an immune system like no other. That's

00:41:30.139 --> 00:41:32.960
amazing. Yeah. It just wasn't, the holidays was

00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:34.900
not what we pictured. There were very sweet moments

00:41:34.900 --> 00:41:38.880
of it. And like, like I said before, seeing like

00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:42.000
Colt just so excited with Christmas was super

00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:46.219
fun. And so he did get like moments of that.

00:41:46.260 --> 00:41:49.460
And we got to see pretty much everyone we wanted

00:41:49.460 --> 00:41:52.780
to see for the most part. At least one time.

00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:55.000
That's good. Just not multiple times like we

00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:57.780
wanted to. And it sucks because we were like,

00:41:57.860 --> 00:41:59.980
we were there for 12 days. It felt like a really

00:41:59.980 --> 00:42:03.000
long period of time. Yeah. If no one was sick,

00:42:03.099 --> 00:42:04.840
it would have been like. Yeah, it would have

00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:06.980
been great. Yeah. It almost would have been maybe

00:42:06.980 --> 00:42:10.239
too long. Right. But the fact that we were down

00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:13.219
for like nine out of those 12 days was pretty

00:42:13.219 --> 00:42:15.679
rough. Yeah. I mean, this is going to be one

00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:18.380
of those Christmases that in like 20 years, you

00:42:18.380 --> 00:42:23.309
guys don't remember it. But we sure do. Yeah.

00:42:23.449 --> 00:42:27.510
Yeah. And I think that I'm one of those people

00:42:27.510 --> 00:42:30.090
that always has really high expectations. I don't

00:42:30.090 --> 00:42:32.630
know if you're like this. But when my expectations

00:42:32.630 --> 00:42:36.010
are not met, I'm then disappointed with any situation.

00:42:36.250 --> 00:42:38.949
Sure. Yeah. But with this especially where I'm

00:42:38.949 --> 00:42:41.329
like I'm picturing all these like magical things

00:42:41.329 --> 00:42:45.809
and – We're making memories together. And I'm

00:42:45.809 --> 00:42:48.300
like, oh, no, we're just really – Just getting

00:42:48.300 --> 00:42:51.260
to know each other a lot more. Ways we didn't

00:42:51.260 --> 00:42:56.519
want to. Yeah. So it was not what we expected.

00:42:58.019 --> 00:43:00.599
But, you know, it is what it is. But you survived.

00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:03.119
Yeah. So here you are. We did. And you weren't

00:43:03.119 --> 00:43:04.860
sick on the – no one was sick on the plane ride.

00:43:04.860 --> 00:43:08.119
No. And I'm so grateful. Like on the plane ride

00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:11.219
to California and the plane ride home, no one

00:43:11.219 --> 00:43:13.840
was sick, which I'm so thankful. Like it hit

00:43:13.840 --> 00:43:17.300
cold like three hours after we landed. And so

00:43:17.300 --> 00:43:19.559
that just would have been absolutely terrible.

00:43:19.940 --> 00:43:21.760
Yes, for sure. If it would have been on the plane

00:43:21.760 --> 00:43:24.059
or even if it would have been before we even

00:43:24.059 --> 00:43:25.579
left, because then it would have been the decision

00:43:25.579 --> 00:43:29.840
of like, do we even go? Do we need to like delay

00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:32.199
our flight? And then we probably wouldn't have

00:43:32.199 --> 00:43:35.760
even gone because it would have just, I mean,

00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:39.239
it just hit us one by one. Yeah, just figuring

00:43:39.239 --> 00:43:43.679
that out. Yeah. So there were absolutely plus

00:43:43.679 --> 00:43:48.070
sides to all of it. Um, but I don't think I've

00:43:48.070 --> 00:43:51.210
ever, like as a family, we've never been sick

00:43:51.210 --> 00:43:54.550
for like that span of a time altogether. Yeah.

00:43:54.550 --> 00:43:56.989
I feel like it's usually like two of us are sick

00:43:56.989 --> 00:43:59.329
at the same time and it's like all kind of overlapping,

00:43:59.489 --> 00:44:04.170
but yeah. Yeah. But super great. Well, what's

00:44:04.170 --> 00:44:09.469
like, do you have a favorite moment? I know that

00:44:09.469 --> 00:44:13.250
was like, obviously not the Christmas you wanted,

00:44:13.349 --> 00:44:17.119
but. Of the holidays as a whole. Yeah, just,

00:44:17.219 --> 00:44:19.840
like, whether it's from, like, your guys' family

00:44:19.840 --> 00:44:22.699
Christmas or, like, in the midst of everyone

00:44:22.699 --> 00:44:24.420
being sick, like, a sweet moment. Just, like,

00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:27.179
okay, everything sucked. But, like, I'll hold

00:44:27.179 --> 00:44:28.699
on to that forever because that was really sweet.

00:44:28.820 --> 00:44:31.599
Yeah. Yeah, I would say that family Christmas

00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:34.760
morning, I think that will just stick with me

00:44:34.760 --> 00:44:38.039
for the rest of my life as, like, the first kind

00:44:38.039 --> 00:44:42.610
of intentional. Because, like. last year for

00:44:42.610 --> 00:44:46.170
christmas yes we celebrated but it wasn't i mean

00:44:46.170 --> 00:44:50.389
colt was one we didn't really do a whole lot

00:44:50.389 --> 00:44:52.969
i guess for sure yeah same with lloyd last year

00:44:52.969 --> 00:44:55.829
yeah we opened presents but he didn't really

00:44:55.829 --> 00:44:58.090
care yeah colt like kind of ripped the paper

00:44:58.090 --> 00:45:01.130
i guess but this christmas he was like very excited

00:45:01.130 --> 00:45:04.469
about the presents and one of his gifts was a

00:45:04.469 --> 00:45:09.789
bunch of magnetiles um and he loves them and

00:45:09.789 --> 00:45:13.059
so now it's like I mean, if anyone listening

00:45:13.059 --> 00:45:15.199
has, like, young boys and you don't have magnet

00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:17.659
tiles, like, I mean, Colt will sit there and

00:45:17.659 --> 00:45:20.340
build magnet tiles for, like, 30 to 45 minutes,

00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:23.440
which to have the attention span for a two -year

00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:26.780
-old to just sit and, like, build and do something.

00:45:26.920 --> 00:45:28.300
Yeah, we'll have to pull. Ours we could, like,

00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:30.780
put away in a closet for a while, so maybe we'll

00:45:30.780 --> 00:45:31.139
have to pull them back out. Yeah, you should

00:45:31.139 --> 00:45:34.239
try them again and see if he's interested. Yeah.

00:45:34.920 --> 00:45:37.880
But I would say just, like, just that whole morning

00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:41.039
as a whole and, like, It's so much more fun Christmas

00:45:41.039 --> 00:45:44.679
morning to be like the parents now. Yeah, I agree.

00:45:45.059 --> 00:45:48.469
Rather than being like. the kid which as a kid

00:45:48.469 --> 00:45:50.869
it's so exciting yeah but as a parent it's so

00:45:50.869 --> 00:45:53.969
magical like yeah i would agree that like it's

00:45:53.969 --> 00:45:56.489
more magical as a parent which is funny because

00:45:56.489 --> 00:45:58.969
you're the one making it happen making the magic

00:45:58.969 --> 00:46:01.590
and that's so fun like the night before when

00:46:01.590 --> 00:46:04.210
michael and i are like prepping everything and

00:46:04.210 --> 00:46:06.989
like deciding where to put things and like do

00:46:06.989 --> 00:46:10.349
the footprints and all the things like that is

00:46:10.349 --> 00:46:14.610
just It just is super fun. And I'm excited to

00:46:14.610 --> 00:46:17.750
keep doing that throughout the years. But I think

00:46:17.750 --> 00:46:20.670
I'll especially hold on to this one. Yeah. Even

00:46:20.670 --> 00:46:23.070
though it wasn't like on Christmas morning, it's

00:46:23.070 --> 00:46:26.920
still. I don't know. I mean, so we. Like, honestly,

00:46:27.039 --> 00:46:28.780
never in our marriage have we done, like, our

00:46:28.780 --> 00:46:31.280
family Christmas on Christmas Day. And at first

00:46:31.280 --> 00:46:32.619
it was just like, well, it's just the two of

00:46:32.619 --> 00:46:34.420
us. So it doesn't really make sense to disrupt

00:46:34.420 --> 00:46:37.300
the whole family thing for just the two of us.

00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:39.320
But we want to do something intentional. And

00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:41.039
then it just, like, kind of made sense to just,

00:46:41.079 --> 00:46:43.460
like, stick with that. Yeah. So, like, I don't

00:46:43.460 --> 00:46:45.780
know. And I've been thinking about this a lot

00:46:45.780 --> 00:46:48.929
because there's so many, like. parents and grandparents

00:46:48.929 --> 00:46:51.570
and in -laws who just complain like it has to

00:46:51.570 --> 00:46:55.090
be this time on december 25th it's like well

00:46:55.090 --> 00:46:57.110
what's the thing that's really important yeah

00:46:57.110 --> 00:46:59.809
like the date i understand there's like a little

00:46:59.809 --> 00:47:02.449
bit of like time off the significance to yeah

00:47:02.449 --> 00:47:06.190
but but like the date itself like it's about

00:47:06.190 --> 00:47:08.409
what like what we're celebrating and like yeah

00:47:09.289 --> 00:47:11.469
Jesus was actually born in like September, I

00:47:11.469 --> 00:47:14.250
think. Yeah, we have no idea. I mean, they have

00:47:14.250 --> 00:47:16.750
some ideas, but yeah, it probably wasn't December

00:47:16.750 --> 00:47:19.610
25th. And yeah, so it's about like what we're

00:47:19.610 --> 00:47:22.530
celebrating and like how we celebrate it as a

00:47:22.530 --> 00:47:25.530
family. And if that doesn't happen on a certain

00:47:25.530 --> 00:47:28.909
date, like we didn't have either of our kids.

00:47:29.969 --> 00:47:32.389
Lloyd's never had a birthday party on his actual

00:47:32.389 --> 00:47:34.090
birthday because it's been on like a Wednesday.

00:47:34.349 --> 00:47:37.090
Yeah. And like same with Zeta this year. So,

00:47:37.190 --> 00:47:39.550
you know, and we wouldn't say that's any less

00:47:39.550 --> 00:47:41.909
special. No. You know, but there's this like

00:47:41.909 --> 00:47:44.349
obsession with Christmas where it's like we have

00:47:44.349 --> 00:47:47.349
to celebrate on the 25th. And it's like, no,

00:47:47.389 --> 00:47:50.530
we can just like find the time to celebrate as

00:47:50.530 --> 00:47:53.349
a family, whether it's like your little family

00:47:53.349 --> 00:47:56.789
or your extended family. Yep. To like make it

00:47:56.789 --> 00:48:00.099
all work together. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like I

00:48:00.099 --> 00:48:03.079
grew up, my parents are divorced and both remarried.

00:48:03.079 --> 00:48:05.559
So we would always celebrate with my mom one

00:48:05.559 --> 00:48:08.639
day or growing up. It was my mom in the morning,

00:48:08.699 --> 00:48:12.099
dad in the afternoon because it had to be like

00:48:12.099 --> 00:48:15.840
on Christmas like that. But now it's like, oh,

00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:18.300
we. we split it up into multiple days because

00:48:18.300 --> 00:48:21.199
that's what works. And it's like, try to have

00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:23.019
it a little less stimulating, I guess, for the

00:48:23.019 --> 00:48:24.880
kids. And you have more time together and you

00:48:24.880 --> 00:48:27.239
have more. It's not rushed. It's not rushed.

00:48:27.659 --> 00:48:31.260
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. What was a highlight for you?

00:48:32.260 --> 00:48:35.780
So one of Lloyd's like, it wasn't even like a

00:48:35.780 --> 00:48:37.719
big present, but like his main present, I guess,

00:48:37.739 --> 00:48:40.699
was since he's obsessed with the movie cars.

00:48:40.820 --> 00:48:46.599
Yeah. We got him Mac, the Mac truck. And he loves

00:48:46.599 --> 00:48:48.699
it so much. Like, honestly, if that was the only

00:48:48.699 --> 00:48:51.239
present we got him, he would be happy. But to

00:48:51.239 --> 00:48:55.059
the point where for probably a full week afterwards,

00:48:55.400 --> 00:48:59.179
every time he woke up, first words, I go downstairs,

00:48:59.360 --> 00:49:02.900
I go play with Mac. All right. Like, okay, that'll

00:49:02.900 --> 00:49:05.780
get you out of bed. Great. But just immediately,

00:49:05.880 --> 00:49:08.800
I go downstairs, I go play with Mac. And he just

00:49:08.800 --> 00:49:12.699
loves it so much. That's so cute. And yeah, so

00:49:12.699 --> 00:49:15.130
it's like, I think the first time he's, like

00:49:15.130 --> 00:49:19.090
registered that he received a present and it's

00:49:19.090 --> 00:49:21.090
something that he really really loves it's like

00:49:21.090 --> 00:49:23.429
he's gotten stuff before but it's like toys also

00:49:23.429 --> 00:49:25.650
just kind of appear in life sometimes for little

00:49:25.650 --> 00:49:30.489
kids yeah so yeah and then they're like big present

00:49:30.489 --> 00:49:33.820
we have one of those Stuart made this last year,

00:49:33.900 --> 00:49:36.760
like one of those Montessori arches. So we've

00:49:36.760 --> 00:49:38.239
had that for a year. And then this year he made

00:49:38.239 --> 00:49:41.420
a slide to go on it, which they're obsessed with

00:49:41.420 --> 00:49:43.420
having a slide in the house. I love it. It's

00:49:43.420 --> 00:49:46.500
so nice. And Zeta's also figured out how to climb

00:49:46.500 --> 00:49:49.400
up it. Cute. So she'll climb up it and then slide

00:49:49.400 --> 00:49:53.019
down on her belly, which is super cute. That's

00:49:53.019 --> 00:49:55.159
adorable. But yeah, I think like similar to just

00:49:55.159 --> 00:50:01.880
like enjoying them getting excited. again lloyd

00:50:01.880 --> 00:50:03.699
especially this year's ada doesn't really care

00:50:03.699 --> 00:50:08.079
yet and just like the light in his eyes as he

00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:10.519
opens mac for the first time i'm like oh my gosh

00:50:10.519 --> 00:50:13.179
this is everything i ever dreamed of it makes

00:50:13.179 --> 00:50:15.860
me want to just spend literally all of all of

00:50:15.860 --> 00:50:18.400
my money on toys for my kids yeah i'm like i

00:50:18.400 --> 00:50:21.159
understand how people overdo it yeah oh yeah

00:50:21.159 --> 00:50:23.579
because i'm like i just want to get them Anything

00:50:23.579 --> 00:50:27.179
they could ever want. Yeah. And obviously that's

00:50:27.179 --> 00:50:29.380
not smart, but I understand. And then you're

00:50:29.380 --> 00:50:31.019
like, I don't want this money twice my house.

00:50:31.500 --> 00:50:33.840
Oh my gosh. That's the other side of it too is

00:50:33.840 --> 00:50:37.980
like since we were in California, people give

00:50:37.980 --> 00:50:40.699
the boys gifts and then trying to travel back

00:50:40.699 --> 00:50:43.360
with gifts. Do you have like an extra suitcase?

00:50:43.659 --> 00:50:46.039
So we didn't bring an extra suitcase this year.

00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:48.019
We tried to shove as much as we could into like

00:50:48.019 --> 00:50:50.400
the space that we had in our suitcases, but we

00:50:50.400 --> 00:50:56.570
had to send a huge box. and it like my brother

00:50:56.570 --> 00:51:01.150
specifically he like forgot that we travel which

00:51:01.150 --> 00:51:08.210
is so funny and so he got a drum set he grews

00:51:08.210 --> 00:51:12.030
a piano like smaller for the kids but like still

00:51:12.559 --> 00:51:15.219
uh then having to mail these things back it's

00:51:15.219 --> 00:51:17.559
so funny like these can stay at your house we

00:51:17.559 --> 00:51:20.719
will come play them yes exactly but then michael

00:51:20.719 --> 00:51:22.840
and i like traveling home we're like we're literally

00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:25.519
gonna we need to purge all of the toys that we

00:51:25.519 --> 00:51:29.420
have because our kids do not need this many toys

00:51:29.420 --> 00:51:32.519
and we just don't care they don't care yeah i'm

00:51:32.519 --> 00:51:36.360
like so this past week lloyd just like plays

00:51:36.360 --> 00:51:39.519
with i mean he like got it he's played with almost

00:51:39.519 --> 00:51:42.139
all the toys he's gotten for christmas yeah But

00:51:42.139 --> 00:51:44.699
like he could play with just Mac and Lightning.

00:51:44.940 --> 00:51:47.360
Yeah. Like if those were the only two toys he

00:51:47.360 --> 00:51:49.920
had, I think he'd be happy. For sure. And so

00:51:49.920 --> 00:51:52.440
this past week since we've gotten home, I'm like

00:51:52.440 --> 00:51:55.699
I've slowly just every night I've kind of like

00:51:55.699 --> 00:51:58.800
taken one toy and like either put it in storage

00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:03.760
or thrown it in the trash. Yeah. So both Stuart

00:52:03.760 --> 00:52:06.340
and I had the week between Christmas and New

00:52:06.340 --> 00:52:09.179
Year's off as well. And typically my parents

00:52:09.179 --> 00:52:11.619
take the kids on Wednesdays when I'm working.

00:52:11.739 --> 00:52:13.019
And so they're like, do you want us to do that

00:52:13.019 --> 00:52:16.739
this week? And we decided yes. One, because we're

00:52:16.739 --> 00:52:18.440
like, oh, we can have like a little bit of a

00:52:18.440 --> 00:52:20.880
day date and like do something together. But

00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:25.280
then also what we did was cleaned out their closet.

00:52:25.659 --> 00:52:27.900
Because we don't really, like, we store some

00:52:27.900 --> 00:52:30.159
clothes in their closet, but mostly like jackets

00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:33.800
and stuff like that. But we had been storing

00:52:33.800 --> 00:52:36.019
board games in their closet that were like, we

00:52:36.019 --> 00:52:38.900
don't want to get rid of these. But also. We're

00:52:38.900 --> 00:52:41.539
not going to be playing them for a while. Yeah,

00:52:41.820 --> 00:52:44.280
we don't have time to play a three -hour game

00:52:44.280 --> 00:52:46.860
of Catan right now. Yeah, and they don't understand.

00:52:47.119 --> 00:52:48.880
But we're going to save them for when they do

00:52:48.880 --> 00:52:52.460
understand. So we reorganized a bunch of stuff.

00:52:52.860 --> 00:52:55.480
So we took the shelf that was in their closet

00:52:55.480 --> 00:52:57.760
and had the board games, brought it down to our

00:52:57.760 --> 00:52:59.860
main living area because it's one of those cube

00:52:59.860 --> 00:53:03.460
shelves. So this is perfect for toys. It also

00:53:03.460 --> 00:53:06.780
puts everything kind of out for them to see so

00:53:06.780 --> 00:53:08.079
they actually know what they're doing. could

00:53:08.079 --> 00:53:11.199
play with makes it easier for us to be like oh

00:53:11.199 --> 00:53:12.699
this is what they're playing with versus not

00:53:12.699 --> 00:53:15.800
playing with yeah and then same thing like went

00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:19.519
through all of the toys put some in storage gave

00:53:19.519 --> 00:53:22.340
some away yeah some of the stuff that people

00:53:22.340 --> 00:53:23.519
have gotten us throughout the years that were

00:53:23.519 --> 00:53:27.269
like things Thank you so much. And that has lived

00:53:27.269 --> 00:53:29.289
in the back of their closet since then. Yeah.

00:53:29.650 --> 00:53:32.070
We have a couple of those. Yeah. So we did the

00:53:32.070 --> 00:53:35.230
same thing. That's smart. It's smart. Yeah. There's

00:53:35.230 --> 00:53:37.929
just so many toys. It's so much. I know. I need

00:53:37.929 --> 00:53:41.750
to like figure out a way to organize all the

00:53:41.750 --> 00:53:44.630
toy like bins. And that's what I really want

00:53:44.630 --> 00:53:47.389
is like if it doesn't match one of our bins that

00:53:47.389 --> 00:53:50.119
we have, then it's like. Where do we put it?

00:53:50.400 --> 00:53:52.780
Right now, it just feels like I have so many

00:53:52.780 --> 00:53:56.940
toys that are just like laying on top of the

00:53:56.940 --> 00:54:01.000
shelf or like, yeah, in the shelf, but it doesn't

00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:02.800
have a home because it doesn't have a category

00:54:02.800 --> 00:54:06.019
it fits into. Sure. So it's just like, I don't

00:54:06.019 --> 00:54:08.039
even know where to put this thing. Yeah. Yeah.

00:54:08.260 --> 00:54:12.539
So I don't know. Just random thoughts, but. Super

00:54:12.539 --> 00:54:15.159
grateful for all the gifts and toys for the kids.

00:54:15.179 --> 00:54:18.360
Like, absolutely. I just feel like now I need

00:54:18.360 --> 00:54:22.059
to declutter my life a little more. One nice

00:54:22.059 --> 00:54:24.750
thing. our family's been pretty respectful of

00:54:24.750 --> 00:54:26.570
is we're like please don't get a lot of toys

00:54:26.570 --> 00:54:28.489
but you're allowed to get as many books as you

00:54:28.489 --> 00:54:30.289
want like that's the one thing because we're

00:54:30.289 --> 00:54:32.230
like we don't want to take away the joy of giving

00:54:32.230 --> 00:54:34.969
yeah we both sir and i love giving gifts as well

00:54:34.969 --> 00:54:36.690
so we're like it sucks when someone's like don't

00:54:36.690 --> 00:54:38.750
get me a gift yeah and especially for little

00:54:38.750 --> 00:54:41.510
kids you want to get gifts that's so fun so that's

00:54:41.510 --> 00:54:44.250
been kind of our thing is like let's limit the

00:54:44.250 --> 00:54:48.150
toys but as many books as you want yeah and so

00:54:48.150 --> 00:54:51.469
both uh sets of grandparents this year got like

00:54:51.469 --> 00:54:54.769
several books nice which has also then been super

00:54:54.769 --> 00:54:58.369
fun because the kids love books and yeah that

00:54:58.369 --> 00:55:01.289
lives a lot longer i feel like than toys anyways

00:55:01.289 --> 00:55:06.269
yeah okay so outside of all of the sickness what

00:55:06.269 --> 00:55:08.929
was like the hardest moment that's a great question

00:55:08.929 --> 00:55:12.670
do you have an answer and i can think yeah so

00:55:12.670 --> 00:55:16.409
i kind of have two and it just like it boils

00:55:16.409 --> 00:55:18.869
down to overstimulation yeah we're just like

00:55:19.599 --> 00:55:21.940
was like kind of hard for me as a mom like with

00:55:21.940 --> 00:55:24.940
my mom part so what happened on Christmas day

00:55:24.940 --> 00:55:27.159
and then what happened the next day or again

00:55:27.159 --> 00:55:30.719
Lloyd's a little more introverted so then he's

00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:32.460
overstimulated there's lots of people he's pretty

00:55:32.460 --> 00:55:35.139
over it and on Christmas day at one point it

00:55:35.139 --> 00:55:37.420
was in the evening everyone was at our house

00:55:37.420 --> 00:55:39.380
and he just wanted me to hold him and I think

00:55:39.380 --> 00:55:43.260
he like just wanted like a minute where like

00:55:43.260 --> 00:55:47.360
grandparents and uncle aren't like around him

00:55:47.360 --> 00:55:51.679
which is fine But then multiple people came over

00:55:51.679 --> 00:55:55.000
and were like, oh, buddy, are you so tired? And

00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:57.000
like trying to rub his back and stuff like that.

00:55:57.940 --> 00:56:01.119
Like I know you're trying to help and I can't

00:56:01.119 --> 00:56:02.820
fault you for like wanting to help. It's like

00:56:02.820 --> 00:56:05.559
you love him too. But also like I think he just

00:56:05.559 --> 00:56:08.559
needs, he just wants his mom to give him a hug

00:56:08.559 --> 00:56:11.199
and to like have him in it. And then a similar

00:56:11.199 --> 00:56:14.500
thing happened the next day where my sister and

00:56:14.500 --> 00:56:17.219
her husband came over. And this is so tough because.

00:56:17.679 --> 00:56:21.559
They drove for two days to come out for Christmas.

00:56:21.679 --> 00:56:23.760
And they were also in town for a pretty short

00:56:23.760 --> 00:56:26.519
period of time this time. So I think they drove

00:56:26.519 --> 00:56:29.280
for as many days as they were in town. They drove

00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:32.159
two days out. They were in town for, I think,

00:56:32.159 --> 00:56:34.739
four, maybe five days. And then two days back

00:56:34.739 --> 00:56:37.739
home. So obviously, we want to make the most

00:56:37.739 --> 00:56:39.860
of the time, all that. But then also, I want

00:56:39.860 --> 00:56:42.559
to take care of my kids. And so they were at

00:56:42.559 --> 00:56:46.119
our house the day after Christmas. And Lloyd

00:56:46.119 --> 00:56:48.050
kept coming over to me and being like, Go upstairs.

00:56:48.409 --> 00:56:51.409
Go upstairs. I was like, why do you want to go

00:56:51.409 --> 00:56:53.570
upstairs, buddy? And finally I took him upstairs

00:56:53.570 --> 00:56:56.469
and he just wanted to play. So I was like, oh,

00:56:56.530 --> 00:56:58.369
I think you just don't want people in your house.

00:56:58.570 --> 00:57:02.530
Yeah. Which, again, I can relate to. Yeah. But

00:57:02.530 --> 00:57:03.710
it was just like. He just wanted a little alone

00:57:03.710 --> 00:57:06.210
time. Yeah. But it was just like such a tough

00:57:06.210 --> 00:57:10.150
thing of like, again, so thankful of like my

00:57:10.150 --> 00:57:12.489
sister and her husband. Yeah. Came out and like

00:57:12.489 --> 00:57:14.429
want to spend time with them, want the kids to

00:57:14.429 --> 00:57:18.119
spend time with them. All of that. but also like

00:57:18.119 --> 00:57:20.480
how do you like find the balance of then like

00:57:20.480 --> 00:57:22.820
taking care of this kid who just he just needs

00:57:22.820 --> 00:57:28.380
to alone time that's so so sad and also so sweet

00:57:28.380 --> 00:57:31.039
that he's like learning to to like communicate

00:57:31.039 --> 00:57:35.239
express that yeah yeah oh buddy yeah i would

00:57:35.239 --> 00:57:39.670
actually say A hard moment for us. Kind of similar,

00:57:39.789 --> 00:57:42.750
actually. I mean, Christmas, like you said, it

00:57:42.750 --> 00:57:44.849
throws off everything. It throws off like my

00:57:44.849 --> 00:57:48.269
kids thrive off of routine. And so do I. Whenever

00:57:48.269 --> 00:57:51.570
naps get thrown off, like just schedule in general

00:57:51.570 --> 00:57:55.300
and then like traveling, like it's just. I'm

00:57:55.300 --> 00:57:57.320
trying to be the flexible parent, but it's hard.

00:57:57.559 --> 00:57:59.760
Yeah. And it just throws everything off, which

00:57:59.760 --> 00:58:02.860
I think throws Colt especially off right now.

00:58:03.239 --> 00:58:07.039
And so it was on the 26th that we were over at

00:58:07.039 --> 00:58:10.239
my dad's house and it was, we had like an early

00:58:10.239 --> 00:58:12.440
dinner. I think it was like three o 'clock maybe

00:58:12.440 --> 00:58:15.639
or something, three or four. And Colt is just

00:58:15.639 --> 00:58:18.199
having like a full blown tantrum. And it's like.

00:58:18.940 --> 00:58:22.000
I think maybe he got a 20, 30 -minute nap again.

00:58:22.300 --> 00:58:26.039
Ideal. Yeah, that day. And so I knew, like, I

00:58:26.039 --> 00:58:28.239
was like, he's going to, it's going to be a rough,

00:58:28.280 --> 00:58:31.780
like, evening. For sure. And so Michael, like,

00:58:31.800 --> 00:58:34.920
took him into another room, just, like, away

00:58:34.920 --> 00:58:37.840
from the family dinner that was happening. And

00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:43.039
I think my dad, which loved my dad so much, he,

00:58:43.119 --> 00:58:45.059
like, looked at me and he's like, Colt's really

00:58:45.059 --> 00:58:48.320
having a big tantrum, huh? And I'm like. well

00:58:48.320 --> 00:58:51.639
yeah i was like well yeah like he's super overstimulated

00:58:51.639 --> 00:58:54.059
he's very overtired he's been through he's been

00:58:54.059 --> 00:58:57.460
sick yeah and i kind of like not that he meant

00:58:57.460 --> 00:59:00.219
it in a negative way but it like i kind of took

00:59:00.219 --> 00:59:04.019
offense to it of like yeah like oh man you gotta

00:59:04.019 --> 00:59:08.280
control your child and i'm like no it's and also

00:59:08.280 --> 00:59:11.420
like it's an emotional response for like for

00:59:11.420 --> 00:59:15.460
the lack of like I don't know, the lack of sleep,

00:59:15.659 --> 00:59:17.900
like all these. Just everything. Yeah, so much.

00:59:17.960 --> 00:59:20.599
Also, there's like, this is a different tangent,

00:59:20.659 --> 00:59:23.400
but there's differences between a meltdown and

00:59:23.400 --> 00:59:26.599
a tantrum. Like a tantrum is I didn't get what

00:59:26.599 --> 00:59:29.239
I want, so I'm throwing a fit and I'm kicking

00:59:29.239 --> 00:59:31.840
and stomping my feet. Where a meltdown is what

00:59:31.840 --> 00:59:34.179
we all have when we're tired and over hungry

00:59:34.179 --> 00:59:36.719
and overstimulated and feeling all the things

00:59:36.719 --> 00:59:40.440
as adults. generally speaking we know how to

00:59:40.440 --> 00:59:43.139
control that right there's some people that don't

00:59:43.139 --> 00:59:46.219
yes um but like such a good yeah as adults like

00:59:46.219 --> 00:59:50.099
we know how to handle being overtired and yeah

00:59:50.099 --> 00:59:53.610
getting over being sick Sometimes we still have,

00:59:53.670 --> 00:59:56.769
and we still have meltdowns as adults. We just

00:59:56.769 --> 00:59:59.170
handle them differently. But yeah, so like he

00:59:59.170 --> 01:00:01.889
wasn't really having a tantrum. No, he was having

01:00:01.889 --> 01:00:04.690
a meltdown and it's because he's tired and like

01:00:04.690 --> 01:00:06.650
there's all these new people that he's coming,

01:00:06.809 --> 01:00:09.349
new -ish people that he's coming into contact

01:00:09.349 --> 01:00:11.150
with that we don't see on the daily. Right, and

01:00:11.150 --> 01:00:13.969
people who know him, but he doesn't know too,

01:00:14.090 --> 01:00:15.949
which makes it really hard. And he's expected

01:00:15.949 --> 01:00:18.949
to like play with them, communicate with them.

01:00:18.969 --> 01:00:23.030
Like it's a law as a little kid. And so I like

01:00:23.030 --> 01:00:27.190
in no way did I fault him for having this meltdown.

01:00:27.610 --> 01:00:31.329
But to me it just felt like I was judged in my

01:00:31.329 --> 01:00:35.550
parenting a little bit there. Not that I – when

01:00:35.550 --> 01:00:38.590
I look back on it, I think I just like I was

01:00:38.590 --> 01:00:42.010
actually getting sick at this moment too. But

01:00:42.010 --> 01:00:45.650
like I think that I was like not in the right

01:00:45.650 --> 01:00:48.690
emotional state either. But I just – yeah, I

01:00:48.690 --> 01:00:52.230
think at that moment. Michael and I were like,

01:00:52.250 --> 01:00:55.389
all right, let's wrap up dinner and then I think

01:00:55.389 --> 01:00:58.269
we're going to head out because it's just kind

01:00:58.269 --> 01:01:00.349
of – I don't think we're going to improve here.

01:01:01.909 --> 01:01:04.769
And so I would say that was probably the hardest

01:01:04.769 --> 01:01:07.469
moment for us over the holidays. Yeah, other

01:01:07.469 --> 01:01:10.210
than obviously poopmageddon. Right, right. Yeah,

01:01:10.250 --> 01:01:14.969
but otherwise. Yeah. Yeah, overstimulation is

01:01:14.969 --> 01:01:20.380
just so like such a – key thing i think for yeah

01:01:20.380 --> 01:01:24.960
families during the holidays yeah and then you

01:01:24.960 --> 01:01:28.239
had sugar and like all these things the expectations

01:01:28.239 --> 01:01:32.639
of little kids is really high yeah like how you're

01:01:32.639 --> 01:01:35.619
supposed to act again around people who you don't

01:01:35.619 --> 01:01:39.260
see very often or even people you do see often

01:01:39.260 --> 01:01:44.179
and it's just yeah i feel like cole is like i

01:01:44.179 --> 01:01:47.199
would say he's extroverted when he's around people

01:01:47.199 --> 01:01:50.179
that he knows super well but introverted whenever

01:01:50.179 --> 01:01:53.179
it's like a little shy yeah he becomes a little

01:01:53.179 --> 01:01:57.199
bit shy and he was very shy this trip um well

01:01:57.199 --> 01:02:00.019
again in a lot of situations yeah there's a lot

01:02:00.019 --> 01:02:04.119
of like extenuating circumstances but yeah it's

01:02:04.119 --> 01:02:07.440
also i think really cute too like i'm sure with

01:02:07.440 --> 01:02:09.940
lloyd like it's cute whenever they kind of cling

01:02:09.940 --> 01:02:12.760
on to you and you're like, Oh buddy. Yeah. I

01:02:12.760 --> 01:02:17.059
think it's nice because especially at like when

01:02:17.059 --> 01:02:20.780
you're with your kid 24 seven, which we pretty

01:02:20.780 --> 01:02:24.619
much are, you see all of the, like you get all

01:02:24.619 --> 01:02:28.760
the rough parts and very infrequently, or at

01:02:28.760 --> 01:02:31.099
least I feel this way where it's like you get

01:02:31.099 --> 01:02:34.590
the tantrum. That's I'm. kicking you and trying

01:02:34.590 --> 01:02:36.269
to hit you and you're trying to control that

01:02:36.269 --> 01:02:37.769
and you're trying not to lose it because that's

01:02:37.769 --> 01:02:39.949
happening and you know that that's a positive

01:02:39.949 --> 01:02:42.309
thing as a mom yeah like they're safe with you

01:02:42.309 --> 01:02:44.530
because they know that they can do this and that

01:02:44.530 --> 01:02:46.849
you're still gonna love them but it's nice to

01:02:46.849 --> 01:02:49.409
see the sweet parts of that too of them feeling

01:02:49.409 --> 01:02:52.030
safe with you of i'm overwhelmed and instead

01:02:52.030 --> 01:02:54.769
of kicking you right now i'm gonna go to my mom

01:02:54.769 --> 01:02:57.849
and i just want her to hold me yeah or dad yeah

01:02:57.849 --> 01:03:01.159
and i think like we just don't see that A lot

01:03:01.159 --> 01:03:03.539
in a day -to -day basis. So it's nice to like

01:03:03.539 --> 01:03:07.320
have that reminder in a sweet way. Yes, absolutely.

01:03:07.579 --> 01:03:11.000
Yeah, I would say, I mean, we talked about like

01:03:11.000 --> 01:03:15.239
this holiday for us was super memorable in good

01:03:15.239 --> 01:03:19.400
ways and in bad ways. For sure. And I think next

01:03:19.400 --> 01:03:21.400
year, I think we talked about this too, next

01:03:21.400 --> 01:03:24.320
Christmas we'll talk about like, oh, do you remember

01:03:24.320 --> 01:03:27.860
last Christmas whenever everyone was pooping

01:03:27.860 --> 01:03:31.889
and vomiting all over the place? Gosh, the flu

01:03:31.889 --> 01:03:34.929
is so bad this year. It is so, so bad. It's rough.

01:03:35.250 --> 01:03:38.769
Well, should we hop into our wins of the week

01:03:38.769 --> 01:03:41.070
then? Yeah, you can go first. Okay, great. Okay,

01:03:41.190 --> 01:03:44.929
so Cole is super into, have you heard of Danny

01:03:44.929 --> 01:03:47.190
Go? I think you've talked about him before, yeah.

01:03:47.710 --> 01:03:50.329
He's on YouTube. Did I talk about Danny Go already

01:03:50.329 --> 01:03:53.050
on the podcast? Maybe. The Flamingo Dance? Oh,

01:03:53.090 --> 01:03:55.489
yes. Okay, we've moved on from the Flamingo Dance.

01:03:56.489 --> 01:03:59.929
During this trip, Colt just, like, his obsession

01:03:59.929 --> 01:04:02.929
with Danny Go kind of escalated because, I mean,

01:04:02.929 --> 01:04:05.769
we were down a lot of days, so we watched a lot

01:04:05.769 --> 01:04:08.730
of TV. Yeah, a lot of screen time, unfortunately.

01:04:09.449 --> 01:04:12.989
But Danny Go is, like, has a bunch of music videos

01:04:12.989 --> 01:04:15.849
that are, like, interactive, and so Colt is,

01:04:15.969 --> 01:04:18.590
like, obsessed. Have you heard of, like, have

01:04:18.590 --> 01:04:21.800
you heard of the Tony boxes? Yeah, they're like

01:04:21.800 --> 01:04:25.900
little musical boxes. So we got him. Well, my

01:04:25.900 --> 01:04:28.940
mom got him a Tony box, but then we got him like

01:04:28.940 --> 01:04:32.239
a Danny Go thing for it. So then he can like

01:04:32.239 --> 01:04:36.320
listen to the music anytime he wants. And the

01:04:36.320 --> 01:04:39.840
first song that plays on it is called I'm a Superhero.

01:04:40.280 --> 01:04:44.300
And he like has made this song his entire personality.

01:04:45.980 --> 01:04:49.380
now michael's grandma who sews is making colt

01:04:49.380 --> 01:04:53.280
or made colt a cape that's super cute and i think

01:04:53.280 --> 01:04:56.000
it's in the mail right now but he like legit

01:04:56.000 --> 01:04:58.860
like he gets his blanket and has us tie it around

01:04:58.860 --> 01:05:02.059
him like a cape he wears danny go wears like

01:05:02.059 --> 01:05:05.579
this aviator like beanie or like hat with like

01:05:05.579 --> 01:05:08.880
glasses on it we don't have that so colt uses

01:05:08.880 --> 01:05:12.579
safety glasses and wears safety glasses and then

01:05:12.579 --> 01:05:14.980
if he can't find his gardening gloves to wear

01:05:14.980 --> 01:05:19.820
he'll put his socks on his hands as his superhero

01:05:19.820 --> 01:05:23.199
gloves and then he puts his shoes on like because

01:05:23.199 --> 01:05:26.019
danny goes wearing shoes in the video you can't

01:05:26.019 --> 01:05:29.570
not wear yeah and so he like anytime this song

01:05:29.570 --> 01:05:33.349
comes on he like he says pause it mom pause it

01:05:33.349 --> 01:05:35.849
and then he goes and gets all the things and

01:05:35.849 --> 01:05:39.389
then i have to put it on him and then he like

01:05:39.389 --> 01:05:42.730
dances to it the dance that danny go does that's

01:05:42.730 --> 01:05:46.610
so cute and i'm just like i don't love that this

01:05:46.610 --> 01:05:49.829
is like another video that we watch but i'm obsessed

01:05:49.829 --> 01:05:52.650
with his obsession over it yeah because he's

01:05:52.650 --> 01:05:55.690
so stinking cute and it's just like A little

01:05:55.690 --> 01:05:57.889
boy pretending to be a superhero is so wholesome.

01:05:57.949 --> 01:06:00.969
Oh, my gosh. Yeah. And I'm like him just singing

01:06:00.969 --> 01:06:04.429
it. And like he also does tumbling on Saturdays.

01:06:04.429 --> 01:06:06.730
So this morning we went to tumbling and he's

01:06:06.730 --> 01:06:10.250
like in his tumbling class doing the like singing

01:06:10.250 --> 01:06:12.809
at the top of his lungs and doing this dance

01:06:12.809 --> 01:06:15.010
in front of all of these other little kids. And

01:06:15.010 --> 01:06:19.039
I'm like, this is this is like. the childhood

01:06:19.039 --> 01:06:21.300
I want for you. Yeah. Yeah. That's so sweet.

01:06:21.340 --> 01:06:23.380
And I just, I'm going to be so sad when this

01:06:23.380 --> 01:06:26.079
obsession goes. Cause I, I mean, obsessions come

01:06:26.079 --> 01:06:28.440
and go like this for kids. And so I'm like, I

01:06:28.440 --> 01:06:31.940
know this one will be gone at some point, but

01:06:31.940 --> 01:06:35.820
I love it so much right now. And I just, yeah,

01:06:35.880 --> 01:06:38.960
he's so like unapologetically just singing so

01:06:38.960 --> 01:06:43.139
loudly anywhere and it's so cute. So that's the

01:06:43.139 --> 01:06:46.280
best. Yeah. Okay. How about you? Um, so Lloyd

01:06:46.280 --> 01:06:48.420
has been asking us to play with him, but not

01:06:48.420 --> 01:06:50.780
like, he doesn't say, come play with me. He said,

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he'll be like, mom, go over there. Sometimes

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he says, come here, but we're still getting all

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of those words figured out. Um, so he'll. One

01:07:00.619 --> 01:07:02.519
of his favorite things is we have a bench that's

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under a window. And so he likes to stand on the

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bench and drive his cars on the windowsill. So

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he'll be standing on that and be like, mom, go

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over there. Like, you want me to come over there

01:07:12.119 --> 01:07:13.860
to you? It's like, yeah. And then he just wants

01:07:13.860 --> 01:07:16.900
me to like sit next to him while he like crashes

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his monster trucks or plays with Lightning McQueen.

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And it's just really sweet because he doesn't

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usually. He doesn't really want you to play with

01:07:25.260 --> 01:07:28.260
a car. Not really. No. Just watch me. Yeah. There's

01:07:28.260 --> 01:07:30.239
been a couple times when he'll like let me play,

01:07:30.320 --> 01:07:32.980
but usually he just wants me to like be near

01:07:32.980 --> 01:07:36.340
him while he plays, which is just so sweet. Yeah.

01:07:36.360 --> 01:07:39.699
And again, I think when like day -to -day bombing

01:07:39.699 --> 01:07:41.900
is really hard, those little sweet moments are

01:07:41.900 --> 01:07:45.059
like, oh, okay. You do like me. I do like you.

01:07:45.320 --> 01:07:48.019
Yeah. And this is. Like you just want me to be

01:07:48.019 --> 01:07:50.559
with you. Yeah. And that's so cute. And this

01:07:50.559 --> 01:07:53.679
is what. This is about. It's so fun. That's so

01:07:53.679 --> 01:07:57.679
sweet. Does he like tell Zeta to come over and

01:07:57.679 --> 01:08:01.420
or not quite yet? Not quite yet. What he will

01:08:01.420 --> 01:08:06.019
do is if usually if she's doing something he

01:08:06.019 --> 01:08:08.639
doesn't want her to do. Yeah. Then it'll be like

01:08:08.639 --> 01:08:12.639
Zeta go over there. Get away from me. Yeah. You

01:08:12.639 --> 01:08:16.779
can't just or if like we're holding Zeta and

01:08:16.779 --> 01:08:18.699
he wants to be held or he wants a hug or something.

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Zeta on the ground. Get down there. So we're

01:08:22.500 --> 01:08:25.199
like, you can't just tell everyone what, like,

01:08:25.260 --> 01:08:27.760
yeah, you can't just do that. It's your world.

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We're just living in it, buddy. Yeah. So, but

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it's super sweet. Cute. Well, thanks for tuning

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in, guys. Hopefully you had a great holiday.

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Hopefully you had some memorable moments. Hopefully

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you didn't get hit with the flu. Yeah, less vomit

01:08:41.460 --> 01:08:44.600
than you guys. Yeah. But we'd love to hear how

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your Christmas was, how, yeah, how the stimulation

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